Destiny Only Han

Chapter 895 Liu Ying: Thanks to the stupid Oududou for the Confucian gift package...

Dingzhou City.

After seeing off the imperial envoys, General Zhang Yu slowly took out a locked box from the city gate and placed it at the west corner gate.

This is collecting city gate tax.

The city gate tax is a kind of checkpoint tax, but the city entry tax collected here is mainly aimed at those scattered hawkers.

For example, a woodcutter carrying a load of firewood, a fisherman carrying a few fish, and a farmer carrying grain, vegetables and handmade coarse cloth on his shoulders...

Most of them put a little one hundred banknotes equivalent to one 'yuan' into the box according to the value of the goods they carried, that is, dime, but more often, they would choose to put the money directly into the hundred generals guarding the city gate in hand

In this way, you can pay less city gate tax...

But Zhang Yu, the general of the hundred generals, did not dare to accept him.

Ever since Liu Heng took charge of the state affairs, especially after Deng Tong became the chief historian of the palace, he has dominated the finances of the Zhongshan Palace. Under Liu Heng's instruction, he carried out a series of drastic financial reforms, increasing revenue and reducing expenditure. In just one year, the former The treasury of the poor and weak Zhongshan small country gradually became full.

The matter of open source has nothing to do with Duan Hong, a small hundred general, but saving money is mainly aimed at people like him...

The reason is simple. This kind of win-win behavior in which the common people pay less city gate tax and the gatekeepers get extra income is called corruption.

Both the people and the officials win, and the injured is the country.

Well, Zhongshan country.

Therefore, there was a wailing at the gate of the city.

Under the supervision of the subordinate officials sent by the palace, the peddlers who entered the city had to take out more banknotes from their pockets and put them in wooden boxes, and the hearts of those big soldiers were bleeding...

After all, they will more or less get a share of the money obtained through corruption.

"The little boy surnamed Deng will die!"

"Hmph, I can't bear to kill him with one knife..."

"Fuck!"

"Fuck!"

Amidst the suppressed amazement, an isolated island suddenly appeared among the soldiers guarding the gate, and a big black man had a bewildered face.

"what's going on?"

"You're thinking wrong, hey, I'm talking about cutting him into pieces... Uncle, you must believe me!"

"Who is your uncle? You and my sister will reconcile later!"

……

Hundred General Zhang Yu came over and reprimanded angrily:
"Shut up and stand guard!"

"I don't even know the fart, I'm just doing nonsense, and I don't know when I offended anyone!"

"Who is Chang Shi? Who is behind Chang Shi?"

"You don't even want your head?"

In the midst of daring to speak out, Zhang Yu went on to say: "The king's governance of corruption is really not Deng Changshi's advice, but the group of Confucian scholars who eat people's food and don't care about human affairs!"

"Confucian scholar?" Hei Dahan lowered his voice and asked, "But the 23rd bachelor known as 'Wang Zuozhi' and 'Liangfu'? Xianyu Mieming? Gongxitong? Gongliangqiao..."

Zhang Yu interrupted him, and cast a sideways glance: "It's enough to know, why do you need to say it? Are you trying to kill me?"

The big black man was about to defend himself when he suddenly heard a loud horn sounding from the city gate tower.

"what's the situation?"

Zhang Yu hurriedly climbed to the top of the city, looked into the distance, and saw a mighty army, at least thousands of people, faintly appearing on the road.

But he has no worries.

After all, the Zhongshan Kingdom is surrounded by the territory of the Great Han, and it does not border with other races. Besides, apart from destroying the Southwestern Yi in the southwest, the other places have not heard the sound of swordsmen for many years.

More importantly, he saw the extremely eye-catching flag in the army in the distance under the shining sun.

漢。

Open your teeth and dance your claws like a soaring dragon.

"It's strange, there are still two months before the autumn martial arts performance, how can there be troops gathering in Dingzhou City?"

Zhang Yu scratched his head, and immediately stopped thinking about it.

After all, he is just a general. He can guard the city gates and obey the orders of his superiors. It is not his turn to take care of other things, and he is not qualified to take care of them...

A moment later, the army meandered to the city gate.

The general at the front of the horse is a middle-aged man with a wide mouth.

Zhang Yu hurried forward to salute: "Hundred general Zhang Yu, pay my respects to the county lieutenant!"

The middle-aged man asked, "Do you recognize me?"

Zhang Yu clasped his fists and said: "Last year's autumn martial arts show, Zhongshan Kingdom and Qinghe County joined forces to fight against the Zhao army, and the last general followed the county lieutenant!"

The middle-aged man nodded and said, "So that's the case, do I still need to check the documents?"

Zhang Yu froze for a moment: "Yes, this is the Han military regulations..."

His tone was a little weak. After all, the other party was Song Chang, the captain of Qinghe County, and his grandfather was Song Yi, the former Qingzi champion. Even if he met his own king, he only needed to bow his hands and salute, not kneel down!

Song Chang smiled, and took out from his bosom the troop transfer document with the Taiwei Mansion and the emperor's seal on it, and showed it.

"Now, can I go to Tong Chuan (shì) Hou?"

Zhang Yu was about to respond when he heard a loud creaking sound from the city gate behind him, and under the gate, the Prime Minister of Zhongshan Kingdom and Fu Huzai who got the news came out with strides.

"Haha, you're finally here!"

"Farming is busy in autumn, and it is not easy for the county soldiers to assemble, but hurry up, and they will arrive as scheduled..."

Song Chang greeted him with a smile, lowered his voice and said again: "Has the lieutenant of the guard arrived?"

Hefu Huhai also lowered his voice: "With you, you should have entered the palace to meet King Zhongshan by this time... What are you going to do?"

Song Chang was expressionless: "Naturally, according to the Supreme Emperor's handwriting, we sent troops to surround Chongwen Pavilion and captured the 23 bachelors who were bewitching the crowd with their lies. They took over the defense of Zhongshan and led the army to surround the Xishan Palace at the same time."

He Fu and Hu Nai nodded: "So, then I will go face to face with the King..."

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Zhongshan Palace.

When Hefu Huhai walked in, he happened to see Liu Heng kneeling in front of Chen Ping with a plop.

Chen Ping leaned on his scepter and held up the imperial edict framed in yellow silk in his hand, and the voice that used to have a bit of femininity also became majestic.

"You, do you know the crime?"

Liu Heng was confused, but his expression remained the same, he shook his head and said, "I don't know."

After all, at this moment, Chen Ping is not representing Liu Ying, but Liu Bang.

Chen Ping looked at the trembling Deng Tong on the other side, and asked, "You are Deng Tong?"

Deng Tong kowtowed: "Minister Zhongshan Wang Fu Shi Dengtong, I respectfully invite Shengan!"

"Saint Boon."

After Chen Ping finished speaking, he waved his hand, and two soldiers over 1.9 meters in height stepped forward, picked up Deng Tong like catching a chicken, and strode out of the hall.

Liu Heng looked anxious: "What is Qu Nihou's meaning? Deng Tong is an official of the Zhongshan Palace, and the power of life and death rests with one alone..."

Chen Ping glanced at him indifferently, without any fluctuation in his tone: "The Supreme Emperor ordered Deng Tong to be soft and charming. One step out of the palace gate, please!"

Liu Heng immediately fell to the ground, his face ashen.

If the edict was issued by Liu Ying, then he can still argue one or two things, but the edict was issued by the Supreme Emperor Liu Bang, which not only represents imperial power, but also patriarchal power. In today's big environment, let alone a vassal , even Liu Ying, the emperor of the Han Empire, can only bow his head and obey orders!

Chen Ping turned around, and immediately saw Hefu Huhai who was about to leave on tiptoe.

So, he held up the second imperial edict, which was framed in yellow silk and sealed with lacquer.

"The Emperor Taishang issued an order, and the Prime Minister of Zhongshan and Fu Huzai stepped forward to listen to the order."

Hefu Huzai let out a long sigh and knelt down on the ground.

Chen Ping opened the imperial edict and glanced at it, the corners of his mouth twitched inexplicably, relying on his strong willpower to make his face dignified and his cadence faltered.

"He Fu Hu harmed you bastard, Nai Gong handed over his son to you, why can't you teach him better? You and that bastard teamed up to perform Zheng Boke and Duan Yuyan for Nai Gong, right? Nai Gong can't take care of that You son of a bitch, is it possible that I can't deal with you?"

"The tiger guards outside the gate listened, and let Naigong beat him like this, as long as he doesn't die or get maimed, he can beat him however it hurts!"

"Kin this!"

Chen Ping put away the imperial edict and tried his best not to laugh out loud: "Prime Minister, accept the edict to thank you..."

I thank you big-headed ghost... He Fu Hu's face was full of anger: "I don't accept it, let me see the Supreme Emperor, I have shed blood for a big man... Woooooo!"

Obviously, He Fu Hu Hai was dragged out by the Huben guards covering their mouths.

Immediately, there was a crackling sound of hitting the board, but it was different from the hog-killing screams of Hefu Huzai. On the other side, Deng Tong had been beaten out of shape, with less air intake and more air output. I can't survive.

But even so, he seemed to be talking intermittently.

If you listen closely, you can vaguely hear it seems to be a poem.

"What time is this evening, the boat is in the middle of the boat. When is the day today, I have to be in the same boat with the prince. I am ashamed and treated, and I don't want to be shamed. I am so upset that I know the prince. There are trees in the mountains, and there are branches in the trees. , Your heart pleases you, you don’t know..."

The voice of each other is still in my ears, and now it is about to separate heaven and man forever.

Liu Heng's heart was twisted like a knife, and he looked at Chen Ping with tears in his eyes and asked, "Gu, Gu, what did you do wrong? Gu and Changshi, the passion ended with courtesy, what's wrong?"

Chen Ping was silent for a long time, then sighed and said: "Your Majesty still wants to cover up with this kind of 'passionate and polite'? I said something ugly, as long as your Majesty does not neglect the Queen and the ladies in the palace, even if there are With a hundred male favorites, the Supreme Emperor can at most say a word of nonsense."

"But the king favors Deng Tong, is it really because he is soft and pleasant?"

While talking, he took out a very delicate old silver coin from his pocket: "Does your Majesty think this coin is familiar?"

Liu Heng bowed his head and remained silent.

But his slightly trembling fingers still exposed the shock in his heart.

Chen Ping sighed: "It's not that the Supreme Emperor is ignorant of some things, but he just forbears to keep silent because of the deep affection of his own flesh and blood. But the King not only doesn't want to repent, but intensifies it. Is it true that he thinks that today's weakness can be bullied?"

"It is a felony to mint money privately. How can we continue to listen to the words of rotten Confucians, who say that drought is immoral?"

"In my opinion, Your Majesty should sit behind closed doors in the palace and think about your mistakes, and think about how to be a qualified vassal king..."

After he finished speaking, he turned around to leave, but Liu Heng asked, "I just want to know who leaked the secret about the private coining!"

Chen Ping shook his head: "No one."

Liu Heng asked: "Then how did the father know?"

A few inexplicable smiles appeared on Chen Ping's face, and he turned his back to Liu Heng and said, "Maybe it's conscience... Your Majesty's heart is so kind."

After he finished speaking, he walked away quickly when Liu Heng was confused and confused.

"It doesn't make sense, the size and pattern are all the same..."

"conscience?"

"What does it mean?"

Liu Heng frowned, holding the silver coin left by Chen Ping in his hand, lost in thought.

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West of Dingzhou City, Chongwen Pavilion.

Although the soldiers outside had changed from the army of Zhongshan Kingdom to the soldiers of Qinghe County, the voice of lectures here was not disturbed at all.

In the square, a middle-aged man wearing a Confucian crown was sitting in danger.

His name was Gong Liangqiao, and his ancestor was Gong Liangru, one of the 72 sages of the Confucian school.

When Confucius passed through Weiguo in the midst of war, he was trapped by Pu people. Gong Liangru led five chariots to rescue people, saying, "My master and I are killed again, and we would rather die by fighting." So he rushed into the chaos and killed people. , Killing everyone was afraid, and finally let Elder Tang obediently... Well, let Old Master Confucius continue his journey to the west.

However, Gong Liangqiao is different from his ancestors. Apart from his handsome appearance, he can only write, not martial...

"The Master said, if the right is wrong and the wrong is wrong, the people will obey; if the wrong is wrong and the straight is wrong, the people will not obey..."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Promote the upright and place them above the crooked, and the people will obey; promote the crooked and place them above the upright, and the people will not obey!"

"Confucianism is not respected in today's world, the relatives are far away from virtuous officials, the relatives are reused, and they are extravagant..."

"Xunzi said, the people of heaven are not for the ruler; the ruler of heaven is for the people... Also, the ruler is the boat, and the common people are the water. Water carries the boat, and water overturns the boat... ..."

……

But just as he was talking, a group of soldiers broke into the door.

"Where is Xian Yu Mie Ming?"

"Where is Gongxitong?"

……

Following the roll call of the leading soldiers, the men in Confucian uniforms burst into anger, without a trace of timidity on their faces.

The people are not afraid of death, so how can they be afraid of death!
Confucian scholars can never be killed!
But what puzzled them was that the murderous-looking soldiers didn't kill them on the spot as they thought, but just shut them into the carriage outside the door.

Well, it's a carriage instead of a prison cart.

So, they looked at each other in blank dismay, worrying about gains and losses.

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To the west of the city is the Palace of the King of Zhongshan.

After a bout of fights, Song Chang, who personally led the team, successfully took over the palace, which looks extravagant on the outside, but has a very steampunk style on the inside.

Led by several pale-faced engineers, Song Chang saw the coin factory located underground in the palace.

To be precise, it is a counterfeit currency factory.

Song Chang picked up a handful of finished silver coins and looked at them carefully for a long time, but finally sighed: "It's still Zhongshan Wangzhai who has a kind heart..."

After all, the official mint of the Han Dynasty uses silver ingots with high technical content but low silver content due to the developed metallurgical industry, but Liu Heng is different here, so the counterfeit coins he made have high silver content...

Therefore, this kind of behavior of good money driving out bad money will never be tolerated by the big man...

(End of this chapter)